USA: Doctor discusses risk of monkeypox outbreak after infected individual enters US

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More than 200 people in 27 different states are being closely monitored after they came into possible exposure to monkeypox on a flight from Nigeria to Atlanta. Parkland Hospital doctor Franco Nero shared some background on the virus and explained it's dangers in an interview at Parkland Hospital in Dallas on Tuesday.

According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), The at-risk travellers are being monitored as they had contact with an individual who contracted the disease in Nigeria before taking a flight this month. Fortunately, as of yet, no further cases have been detected.

Those being monitored include some who sat within a few metres of the infected individual on the Lagos to Atlanta flight. Some are being monitored as they used the bathroom on that flight, including airline workers who cleaned the bathroom after the flight and flight attendants.

"The patient was isolated, then they took a sample. To do everything in the appropriate way and to get the appropriate test then they sent this to the appropriate lab and that's how they came out with the virus identification. Now the problem with this Monkeypox is how many people were exposed when the patient had the symptoms because with smallpox, chickenpox, you're contagious until the scabs come completely off of your body, it's the same transmission period. So during that time how do you pass the disease on to other people? during travel, on the airplane, at home, at your workplace. Those are the contacts and remember the contact can be not only respiratory but also through fluids, a sneeze, something that could pass the fluid to another person," explained Parkland Hospital doctor Franco Nero.

Monkeypox is caused by a virus that is related to smallpox, which is the only human virus to have been eradicated. Monkeypox apparently causes less severe illness than smallpox, but the disease can still be dangerous. According to the CDC, the fatality rate for this particular strain of monkeypox is around 10 per cent.
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